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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE, 24 1919
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S. E. LUCAS
Optician ,
Removed his office to Kapaa near Court
House. Prompt service as usual
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TIME TO REVISE YOUR INVESTMENTS
Has the filing of your income tax returns caused you to reflect as to
th" future?
W ill you produce or earn more during the coming year than you
did during the past year?
If not you are "out-of-luck" for your living expenses have certainly
not been reduced and you will be required to pay a large part of
your carniiiKS in taxation.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
WHY, BY MAKING YOUR INVESTMENTS PRODUCE A GREATER
INCOME RETURN.
Henry Waterhouse Trust Company, Ltd., Honolulu
compli:ti-: machinery equipment for
RICE MILLS
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WESTERN STANDARD
GAS ENGINE
4-10 with total of 7-484 h.
p. in use in Islands.
Operates on gasoline or
distillate. "Fool proof"
so simple any boy can
run it. Produces pow
er cheaply. Sizes 4 to
270 li. I).
No. 2 Engelberg Huller
Capacity ItoO to 500 lbs.
paddy per hour. lie
quires 10 to 12 h. p.
"Buffalo" Exhauster
Iietjiiires 3 h. p. to ojkt
ales. Allis-Ub'alnieis motor,
where electric power is
available.
Wiite for detailed
informatfoii
Honolulu Iron Works Co.
Honolulu, T. H.
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STOKACJE liATTEIJI ES KEI'AIRED AND KECIIAROEI)
Vn.rANIZIN'C.
Items of Interest to Our
Homesteaders
By O. W. SAHR. County Agent
A- Uerbnrd Case wlio recently
took over the laboratory work for
Grove Farm Plantation has been
doing some remarkable work with
Cocoannts lately. There is a
great deal of land suitable for
cocoannts on Kauai, and although
up to the present time there has
been a very good market for cop
ra and fresh cocoanuts, it would
be a great boom for the islands
if we could nnufacture some of
raw copra into finished products
right here in the islands.
Mr. Case has extracted as much
as 00 per cent oil from the cocoa
nuts produced locally. This goes
to show the high percentage of
oil from the cocoanuts with the
large amount of nuts available
we ought never to have a short
age of oils in the islands. As a
matter of fact oils and fats are
among our most important im
ports, and we are able to produce
these commodities locally and on
land that is now idle.
Mr- E. W. II. Broadbeut who
has been fostering Mr. Case's
work has been able to produce an
excellent butter from cocoanuts.
A butter that tastes every bit as
gooil as real butter if not better.
Ii fact the product is so near the
real thing that it deceived the
judges at the' Territorial Fair
last year who entered a product
made from cocoanuts as real but
ter by mistake. "Of course it
did not get the prize, but the fact
that is was not enough like but
ter to take the prize does not
mean that when tised as butter
it might not be a better product
for the purpose.
Not assuming the attitude of
county agent who is going out of
business but rather as one who
continues to help out the cause
for better farming and better
agricultural conditions of living
the writer of this column wishes
to say here that the county agent
system as carried out by the Ter
ritorial Food Commission under
extension service of the College
of Hawaii will be a thing of the
past- 11 owever, as the county
agent is to take over the govern
ment land business on this is
land after that date, and as in
that capacity he will keep in
close touch with the homestead
ers of the island he will aim to
assist them whenever possible to
do so. This means that the home
steader may call upon the land
agent for agricultural assistance
and the land agent will be
pleased to reuder the homestead
er assistance in securing pure
bred stock for stocking home
flocks of poultry or herds of hogs.
Also by means of keeping in
touch with the best agricultural
methods on this island and else
where the land agent hopes to
continue to advise the homesteads
regarding the most up to date
and most economical methods of
proceedure along all lines of
agricultural production.
According to Win. Henry Rice
of Lihue we have a new livestock
feed that promises to be a great
thing for the islands. Sometime
aa;o Mr. Uice received a few roots
of edible canna from the U. S. Ex
periment Station in Honolulu,
and after looking at the bubers
rather skeptically decided that it
might be a good idea to try plant
them to see what they would do.
Just a novelty you might say.
Just a few weeks ago Mr. liice
while digging arond in his gar
den discovered that the roots he
planted had made remarkable
leaf growth and upon digging up
the roots found the plants to be
verv productive bearers.
Some of the roots gathered
from these plants were tried out
on Mr. Uice's table, but he says
as human food the edible canna
is uot uch of asuccess, but he has
great hopes for it as a stock feed.
"Both tops and tubers" says
Sheriff Bice "are relished by
cows, and the tubers especially
make an excellent feed for swine."
Mr. Bice is now trying out edible
cannu more extensively. The
plant is very productive and it
should be posible to produce a
good yield at a very low figure,
Now that the Waiakea contract
lias been settled to what appears
to be satisfactory agreement be
tween the homesteaders and the
milling company, w still have to
hear of any contract between the
Makee Sugar Company and the
Ilomsteadcrs of the Fourth Se
ries at Kapaa.
It seems that under the pres
ent directorate or rather control
of the milling company that not
much can be done, but by the lat
ter part of next August a few
things might come to pass that
will give the real controllers of
the company a chance to show
the homesteaders that they want
to do the right thing and from nil
that can be gained from hearsay
the majority stock holders want
to do all they can to be fair with
the homesteaders.
Joe Correa of Kapaa home
steads while at the Territorial
Fair purchased a pure bred Berk
shire boar and Taniworth sows
Joe is going to start in cross
breeding and thus destroy all the
years of effort on part of breed
ers who raised the pigs before
him. Not only the ones who
raised his pigs but those who
tried to keep pure the breeds for
generations back.
Correa says he is trying to
raise a new breed. He does not
know what to call the new breed
that he expects to raise in this
manner, but the county agent
would suggest that Correa call
this new breed scrubs.
Kauai always was a big pro
ducer of cassava root for the
manufacture of starch or "pia."
For this reason it is only natural
that Kauai should have the best
cassava root at the fair. Tomoto
of the half-way bridge was the
winner of the first prize which
included a special cash award.
lucre was a good deal of compe
tition in the cassava exhibits.
Homesteaders in Olohena and
upper Waipouli can rest assured
that their crops of cane will be
harvested before long now as ex
tra from the Makee Sugar Com
pany harvesting gang has been
ordered into that section by the
manager. The plantation is now
looking after the harvesting for
the homesteaders in that part of
the homesteads.
Waiakea Homesteads
Probable Solution
After n great deal of backing
and filling and a good deal of ad
verse criticism and censure to and
fro, the dickering between the
Waiikca Mill Company and the
Waikea homesteaders has finally
reached a point of probable seltle
ment substantially on the follow
ing basis:
The Waiakea Mill Company
will take the homesteaders' cane
alongside its main or portable
track and transport, manufacture
into sugar and ship the same for
the homesteader at cost. By way
of remuneration for this service
the mill company asks a pro rata
twelve per cent on the value of the
plant, including railway, mill nnd
shipping facilities. The mill com
pany will manufacture from its
own cane perhaps ;?() per cent of
the total crop, and this .50 per cent
would pay its proportion of the
12 per cent, or say 4 per cent
leaving S per cent to be paid by
the homesteaders.
In addition the mill company
will extend to the combined home
steaders the benefit of its Sugar
Factors holdings, which will en
able them to market most of their
sugar on the Pacific Coast instead
of sending it to the East. This,
it is estimated, would give them
an advantage of a ton.
That there may be no misunder
standing as to the valuation on
which the 12 per cent is to be paid,
the mill company sets an outside
figure of f.no.000 for its manufac
taring and shipping plant, and
S123.000 for its railway plant,
both of which are probably very
fair figures. But in case the
homesteaders question these fig
ures the mill is willing to accept
an arbitration settlement of the
same.
The Waiakea Mill Company
claim that these are materially
better terms than those offered by
the Hawaii Mill in several particu
lars notably in that the con
tract witn tnat corporation re
quires the homesteader to deliver
his cane to the null; that the Ha
waii Mill extraction of sugar from
the cane will fall short of Waiakea
Mill by 7 per cent; and that the
Waiakea Mill Company will make
advances to the extent of !jf 150,000.
This arrangement is proposed
lor a trial period or tour years, so
that the homesteaders may have a
chance to satisfy themselves of its
tairness.
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JEWELERS
. everything in the
Silver and Gold Line.J
Rich Cut Glass and
Art Goods.
Merchandise of the
Best Quality Only.
H.F.W1CHMAN& C0..LD. i
Leading Jewelers.
P. O. Box 342 Honolulu
'f 4- 4 4- 4 a,
"OVEN"
Glass Dishes
for Baking
Sanitary, Easy to Clean, Eco-
nomlcal, Durable
THE NEWEST
dainty
spotless
practical
Bread Pans
Pie Plates, 10-inch
Custards
Bakers
Casseroles
Etc., Etc., Etc.
New shipment Just
Brass Candlesticks
METHOD
bake and
serve in the
same dish
$1.15 each
$1.25 each
.25 each
$1.00 each
v $1.35 each
opened.
at half price.
W.W.Dimond&Co.,Ltd
"The House of Housewares"
53-65 King Street Honolulu
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The steaming fragrance of
the cup of
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In Red Package
at your Grocer's
"WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
kturoAVUrlrclc
Yuen Kee Cafe
Kapaa
Chop Sue dinner by order Day
and Night.
Excellent Service
Also Rooms to Rent
$8.50
A neat, smart Slioe for
men's Spring and Summer
wear. Every Lit as Rood as it
looks.
Upper leather of real calf
skin; sole leather likewise is
made to give long wear and
walking comfort No. 8S7.
Similar models at 810-811.
Manufacturers'
Shoe Store
1051 Fort St. Honolulu
JAS. F. MORGAN
, Co. LtcU
Stocks, Bonds,
Real Estate and Insurance
NO. 125 1J1 MERCHANT vST.
P.O. Box No. 594 Honolulu
I Kuraoka & Co. f
J CONTRACTOR AND CARPENTER
Buildinp, Painting, Moving
Buildings and General
IfCarpetitering.
Manufacturer of All Kinds of
Furniture.
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The onlv drawback to the crop h
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that it requires quite a long time
P.O. Box 265 - Lihue, Kauai
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